Out of the Dust is an innovative, first-of-its-kind mobile classroom & educational outreach designed to educate Utah’s homeless using top-tier online resources and peer-instruction to teach skills & behaviors that lead to long-term success and stability. It is an effort to tell their collective stories in fair & meaningful ways that can dispel myth, reduce fear, and give them a voice at the public table. This site explains the reasons & causesfor homelessness and why so many struggle with mental health & addiction issues andincludes a custom Self Help librarythat is offered to the general public to supplement personal counseling & well-being. It also offers a free Community Resources page to help them locate & navigate from Ogden to Springville.
This site is the result of 18 months of interviews, service projects, and learning where gaps exist, and designed to helpshift perceptions & interactions between the public, policymakers, and those living on the streets AND help those most vulnerable & marginalized to have a second chance in life with an educational “hand-up”instead of an ongoing resource “hand-out.”
Our desire is to locate free venues in or near current shelters to teach full-life wellness principles that include mental health & addiction recovery skills that lead to personal growth, sustainable change, and supplement traditional resource distribution currently being offered.
